Seymour M. Hersh is one of America's premier investigative reporters. In 1969, as a freelance journalist, he wrote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. In the 1970s, he worked at the New York Times in Washington, DC, and New York. He has received more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His books include Cover-up: The Army's Secret Investigation of the Massacre of My Lai 4 and The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.